In Nicholas King’s English translation of the New Testament (2004), the translator decided to use bullet point lists in some case in the Ephesians, Colossians, and Titus. “There are elaborate groups of nouns strung together, and the sentences are rather long. I have tried, not entirely successfully, to make these long sentences more manageable by the use of bullet points.” One such list is Colossians 1:24-28:
Now I rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf; and I fill up what is lacking in the affliction of Christ-in-my-flesh, on behalf of his Body, which is the Church,
- of which I became a servant according to God’s arrangement,
- which was given me for you, to bring God’s word to completion,
- the mystery that was hidden from the ages and from the generations
- but now has been revealed to his saints,
- to whom God wished to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles,
- which is Christ among you, the hope of glory,
- whom we proclaim, admonishing everybody, and teaching everybody in all wisdom,
- that we may present everybody as perfect in Christ — that is the goal towards which I am labouring,
- struggling in accordance with his action that is active in me in power.